Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-09-04
THE HAN FROM THE CABINET.
~ z P. ASsHUH-

II vas ON Sunday morning and, ~ L
NV habit. arose little later than o.
work day. After breakfast i smoked
cigar and read the Sunday paper, which
take regularly. IalEAys enjoy the paper,
and 1 suppose it II becsuse one Is not
hurried s. on other days but can read
slowly and with ease do not wish to
tell the name Of this paper nor Of the Plsee
where / live. because good many people
NAV think that this which follows Is lot
the truth, and that IT i impossible to prove
that it Is true Can bat tel the story, or
the thing, IS II happened, in plain way
and 50 / leave It
In the paper was IN account Of mate
RAILING seancs." It may be that it Is not
the proper way to write il, bat very likely
peonle VIII know what Is meant and that
= the main thing in writing The account
says the seanee went along very well n
int. hands Of peopIethas Is, Of people
Who do not live any more in this world
were first seen, then faces, and At tast
whole people or spirits The last Of these
stood for A while IN the cabinet, and then
walked slowly out Of IL, and the people
who had come TO see things were little
scared and drew back At this time
the spirit stopped, sod II seemed q
though be wished 70 say something.
for be opened his mouth but he did
not To speak. and N 3 moment turned %
90 hack When he did 80 4 nan-it was
the reporter who wrote the account
iumpei forward and took hold Of the
spirit, and, 30 he says, fOund him to De
ve-y solid and very strong, too. Inc
spirit shook the reporter on, but be grab
jbed him again, and then the spirit hit the
reporter = good stout blow between the
eyes and knocked him over chair. AL
was in dire confusion, the account goes on
| women screamed, men shouted and even
sxore. for thespirit laid him about actively
the dim lights were put cot, and when In
| again the spirit was not there But ever
after all this there were people there WHO
talked against the reporter and believed N
the spirit
After I read this piece looked at my
watch AID saw il was time 70 20 to church
30 started and got there as they were
singing the last hymn before the sermon.
That il the one great fault find IN Sunday
papers, they are too interesting. aud 80 o.
ten make one late al church. Dr. d.
preached a good sermon he said We
ought not to put things of too long, that
no man knows when ne Is 70 die; If We
were to die right away how should We like
70 wake up and find that when We wanted
TO 90 in and walk the golden streets We
should not be allowed 20: The sermon was
a good one, and am sorry that / cannot
give the doctors ideas in the words that
| he used. often want 10 tell things In
way thst cannot; mean in words that
are sort Of heaped up and splendid, but
cannot do il 50 there is no use OF saying
anything more about II
After the beDediction | started to walk
home again and alone, for / work al trade
and the men l work with do not care
much about going TO church The street
| live on is q quiet one and has long lines
of shade trees on each side whose branches
meet. In the spring, which Is the season
vrite OF, like 70 see these trees, Tor
their leaves look so much fresher than IN
summer and seem tO let q cool gresnlsh
light through, which puts me IN mind oil
the way clear, fresh water looks when you
dive in il and open your eyes before CON-
ing up again. l suppose, though, there
are a good many people who have never
had the good luck to dive, 50 they will not
know very well what ! mean.
The Saturday night before there had
been q storm; il was one of those short but
hard ones in which the lightning seems to
cut down, angry-hke, as though it were
stabbing something, and the thunder fol-
lows right away and shakes all the win
dows. The morning, though, Was clear
the sun very bright aud the sky that sort
of blue which shuts the eyes. / have no
ticed that this dazzling blue always ia the
sign of another storm. Still, as said be
fore. this bright light was turned TO cool,
underwater green, beneath the thick leaves
OF the trees on our street
When / had reached the place where the
shade was deepest noticed a man far up
the street walking rapidly towards me- II
looked as though We We were approaching
each other through green tunnel. do
not often feel interested in people see on
the streets, because there are so many Of
them and they pass on and you never See
them again. But as soon as | saw this
man felt an interest in him, for he looked
like some one knew. felt little cold,
too. because he resembled very much a
friend whom | had helped to carry out to
the graveyard some six months before.
tried to smile at this fancy, but
for all that did moi
take my eyes off him. He
was a rather small man his skin
was the color OF old wax figures such as you
see in the museums; his hair was black and
his eyes seemed to 20 right into mine, and
be was walking towards me very fast, so
stopped. The nearer he came the more he
looked like my dead TREND. He stopped
squarely in front Of me and asked: do
you know me ?"
~ do not think have that pleasure,
answered, backing away from him; he fol-
lowed me up and said:
"Yo do; what do you want to lie about
it for?''
Are You -?r / asked, mentioning
my friends name.
lam, and you know it too"
"But-but-" began, and than stop
ped and wiped my face, which was very
damp-"but - is dead !"
HE is not, for he stands before you"
For the first time since had seen him
took nv eyes from him and looked abon'
me; there was no one on the street but
ourselves. / thought that everything vas
in an unearthly light, and this put tie no
ton in nv head that perhaps ! was dead.
recalled that DR.. H. had said We could
not know but that each moment would be
our last And then what do we know oi
death after all? That is in the way o!
those who have tried it Might not death
be thing that snatches one away and he
not be aware Of it only so far as to know
that something very strange had happened,
az was the case with me now? The Eight,
or rather the darkness, grew more CHASTITY
far up the street where the trees stopped
and il showed brighter was like looking al
q world that was leaving me. I glanced
again st the desth face before me and IN
the deepening gloom it looked dreadful
re piled 10 wbae be had last said: But
saw you put into the grave-I helped to
put you there"
''What Of that, " he exclaimed impatient.
H. - l;Ea bo uraa offap an lyon church.